Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (; born 21 November 1966) is a Russian-Canadian

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player, trainer, and writer. Awarded the

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Grandmaster title in 1989, he was ranked fourth in the world in the

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in 1992 and again in 2003, with an

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of 2739.

Chess career

Bareev was world under 16 champion in 1982. In 1992 he graduated from the chess faculty of the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture. His greatest success was winning the elite Corus Tournament at

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in 2002. At this event he scored 9/13 points, ahead of top players such as

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, Michael Adams,

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, and

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. Bareev was a three-time winner of the Premier Tournament at the annual Hastings Chess Congress in 1990/91, 1991/92 and 1992/93, shared with

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; the event was then still staged as an invitational tournament in

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. He also won the strong

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tournament held in France in 2003. In a man versus machine contest in January 2003, Bareev took on the chess program HIARCS in a four game-match: all four games were drawn. He was a second to

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in the

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against

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. With Ilya Levitov, Bareev wrote ''From London to Elista,'' a book on the championship as well as Kramnik's subsequent championship matches against Peter Leko and

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; it received the Book of the Year award from the English Chess Federation in 2008. Bareev was a finalist of the World Cup 2000, where he lost to

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, and of the Rapid World Cup 2001, where he lost to Kasparov. His most notable participation in

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events was the

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for the

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2002. Bareev reached the semifinals, but lost his match against Topalov. At the

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, Bareev qualified for the

for the

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, played in May–June 2007. He won his match against Judit Polgár (+2-1=3), but was eliminated after losing his second-round match to Peter Leko (+0-2=3). In 2010, he tied for first with

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and

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in the Moscow Open. In 2015, Bareev, who had moved to

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in 2006, transferred his FIDE membership from the Russian to the Canadian Chess Federation. In 2019, he won the Canadian Zonal Championship, thereby qualifying for the

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. He lost to

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in the first round. Bareev shared equal first with

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at the 2021 Zonal Championship. At the World Cup, he defeated

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in the first round, but then lost to

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. Best results: *1982 Guayaquil (U16 World Ch.) – 1st place *1985 Kharkov (USSR Ch., 1st league) – 1st place *1986 Kiev (USSR Ch.) – 2nd – 7th place *1986 Gausdal (U20 World Ch.) – 3rd – 5th place *1987 Vrnjacka Banja – 1st – 2nd place *1988 Budapest – 1st place *1989 Trnava – 1st place *1989 Moscow (Ch.) – 1st place *1990 Rome Open – 2nd – 6th place *1990 Dortmund Open – 1st place *1990 Leningrad (USSR Ch.) – 1st – 4th place *1990/91 Hastings – 1st place *1991 Biel – 2nd place *1991 Bled/Rogaska Slatina – 2nd place *1991/92 Hastings – 1st place *1992 Dortmund – 3rd place *1992/93 Hastings – 1st – 2nd place *1994 Pardubice GM – 1st place *1994 Tilburg – 2nd place *1995 Wijk-aan-Zee – 2nd place *1995 Leon – 1st – 2nd place *1995 Elista (Russian Ch.) – 1st -5th place *1996 Belgrade (terminated after first leg) – 1st place *1996 Vienna Open – 1st – 8th place *1997 Elista (Russian Ch.) – 2nd place *1999 Sarajevo Bosna – 2nd – 3rd place *2000 Montecatini Terme – 2nd place *2000 Shenyang, FIDE World Cup – 2nd place *2001 Cannes, World Cup (rapid) – 2nd place *2002 Dortmund (Einstein Candidates) – semifinals *2002 Moscow, Russia – The World (Rapid) – 1st-2nd result for Team Russia *2002 Wijk aan Zee – 1st place *2002 Warsaw (rapid) – 1st place *2003 Wijk-aan-Zee – 3rd place *2003 Enghien-les-Bains – 1st place *2003 Моnaco (rapid) – 1st place *2004 Monaco (rapid) – 2nd place *2005 Kazan (Russian Ch., Major League) – 1st – 2nd place *2006 Poikovsky – 2nd – 5th place *2006 Havana, Capablanca Memorial – 2nd place *2008 Leon (rapid) – 1st place *2009 Saint Petersburg (Russian Cup) – 1st place *2010 Moscow-open – 1st – 4th place *2019 Canadian Zonal Championship - 1st place *2021 Canadian Zonal Championship - 1st - 2nd place

Team competitions

Bareev was a member of the Soviet national team at the

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and of the Russian national team at the

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s of 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2006. He won the team gold medal in 1990, 1994, 1996 and 1998. He played on the Canadian team at the Olympiads in 2016 and 2018. Bareev is also a two-time winner of the

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(1997, 2005) and a two-time winner of the

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(1992, 2003). Bareev is a four-time winner of the European Club Cup with three clubs: Lion of

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(1994), Ladia of Russia (1997) and Bosna of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999, 2000).

Trainer

In 2006, Bareev organized a grandmaster school for top Russian junior players and headed it until 2010. In 2009 he worked with Lê Quang Liêm, who became World Blitz Champion in 2013. In 2010-11, Bareev was the head coach of the Russian men's chess team. During that time the team won the silver medal at the

2010 Chess Olympiad The 39th Chess Olympiad (, ''39-ya Shakhmatnaya olimpiada''), organised by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place from September 19 to October 4, 201 ...

. Between 2010 and 2014, he was the head coach of Russia's junior, men's and women's national teams. In recent years, he has coached outstanding young Canadian players such as Razvan Preotu and Michael Song, as well as the Vietnamese grandmaster, Liem Le.

Publications

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References

External links

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"Bareev speaks his mind" [interview
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2001. ChessBase Magazine, no. 82
Toronto Star interview in 2016
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Ben Johnson interviews Evgeny Bareev.
2019. The Perpetual Chess Podcast; no. 126 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bareev, Evgeny 1966 births Living people Chess Grandmasters Soviet chess players Russian chess players Canadian chess players World Youth Chess Champions Chess Olympiad competitors Chess coaches National team coaches People from Chelyabinsk Oblast Russian emigrants to Canada Naturalized citizens of Canada Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, Department of Chess alumni Chess players from Toronto